D Pinsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Pinsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinsky |
| SIGNATURE | PINSKY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arcadia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4909-3119 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Threats to accessing information about sexuality
Book censorship efforts in the USA have become increasingly concerning for champions of freedom of expression and civil liberties. The movement to ban books is seemingly driven by a desire to curtail adolescents’ access to information about sexuality and gender diversity. This paper details the findings of a content analysis of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Top 10 Most Challenged Books list from 2011 to 2021. The authors analysed purpo…
Mediated risk
Based on qualitative interviews with 53 college students, this article explores how digitally mediated communication is seen as a tool for risk reduction by college students when it comes to their flirtatious interactions. I conclude that college students perceive the affordances of digital communication technologies as helping them manage the anxieties and vulnerabilities inherent in the flirtation process, an idea I refer to as “mediated risk.”…
Digitally mediated communication and school-based sex education in the USA
Digital technology has become central to how adolescents explore their developing sexuality and form relationships with peers, including romantic and sexual relationships. Interviews with 110 high school and college students in the Northeastern USA identified how digitally mediated communication is a fundamental part of adolescent flirtation practices, with young people making use of digital affordances to mitigate the interpersonal risks associa…
Doing gender online through flirtation
The art of flirtation seems to have proliferated since the advent of Web 2.0 because, among other reasons, online communication is perceived as having lowered risk for embarrassment compared to in-person communication. My research explores the phenomenon of digitally mediated flirtation among American students that involves the formation of new sexual scripts or social norms for online interactions. Findings from interviews and focus groups with …
‘A world turned upside down’
The professional dominatrix, who has been underrepresented in the literature on sex work, complicates our understanding of the emotional labour of sex work. The professional dominatrix is paid by clients to perform the role of the dominant in scenarios involving bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadomasochism, and ‘fetishism.’ Unlike other sex workers, who must often feign interest and act flirtatiously in order to make clients feel des…
The sustained snapshot
The literature on qualitative methods assumes that researchers will conduct interviews in the course of a participant-observation study but not that extensive observations of interviewees might happen to take place during an interview study. In this article, I raise questions about interview study methodologies, using the example of a life history interview project in which the interviewer stayed at interviewee's homes, met with them for meals, e…
A Constellation of Stigmas
In this article, we explore stigma management among dominatrices, a relatively understudied profession within the literature on sex work. Our analysis is based on in-depth interviews with current and former dominatrices and published memoirs and blogs written by women who have worked in the industry. We argue that the professional dominatrix occupies a unique position within the sex industry, responding to stigma directed toward her both as a sex…
A Constellation of Stigmas
In this article, we explore stigma management among dominatrices, a relatively understudied profession within the literature on sex work. Our analysis is based on in-depth interviews with current and former dominatrices and published memoirs and blogs written by women who have worked in the industry. We argue that the professional dominatrix occupies a unique position within the sex industry, responding to stigma directed toward her both as a sex…
The sustained snapshot
The literature on qualitative methods assumes that researchers will conduct interviews in the course of a participant-observation study but not that extensive observations of interviewees might happen to take place during an interview study. In this article, I raise questions about interview study methodologies, using the example of a life history interview project in which the interviewer stayed at interviewee's homes, met with them for meals, e…
Doing gender online through flirtation
The art of flirtation seems to have proliferated since the advent of Web 2.0 because, among other reasons, online communication is perceived as having lowered risk for embarrassment compared to in-person communication. My research explores the phenomenon of digitally mediated flirtation among American students that involves the formation of new sexual scripts or social norms for online interactions. Findings from interviews and focus groups with …
‘A world turned upside down’
The professional dominatrix, who has been underrepresented in the literature on sex work, complicates our understanding of the emotional labour of sex work. The professional dominatrix is paid by clients to perform the role of the dominant in scenarios involving bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadomasochism, and ‘fetishism.’ Unlike other sex workers, who must often feign interest and act flirtatiously in order to make clients feel des…
The sustained snapshot
The literature on qualitative methods assumes that researchers will conduct interviews in the course of a participant-observation study but not that extensive observations of interviewees might happen to take place during an interview study. In this article, I raise questions about interview study methodologies, using the example of a life history interview project in which the interviewer stayed at interviewee's homes, met with them for meals, e…
A Constellation of Stigmas
In this article, we explore stigma management among dominatrices, a relatively understudied profession within the literature on sex work. Our analysis is based on in-depth interviews with current and former dominatrices and published memoirs and blogs written by women who have worked in the industry. We argue that the professional dominatrix occupies a unique position within the sex industry, responding to stigma directed toward her both as a sex…
Doing gender online through flirtation
The art of flirtation seems to have proliferated since the advent of Web 2.0 because, among other reasons, online communication is perceived as having lowered risk for embarrassment compared to in-person communication. My research explores the phenomenon of digitally mediated flirtation among American students that involves the formation of new sexual scripts or social norms for online interactions. Findings from interviews and focus groups with …
Digitally mediated communication and school-based sex education in the USA
Digital technology has become central to how adolescents explore their developing sexuality and form relationships with peers, including romantic and sexual relationships. Interviews with 110 high school and college students in the Northeastern USA identified how digitally mediated communication is a fundamental part of adolescent flirtation practices, with young people making use of digital affordances to mitigate the interpersonal risks associa…
Threats to accessing information about sexuality
Book censorship efforts in the USA have become increasingly concerning for champions of freedom of expression and civil liberties. The movement to ban books is seemingly driven by a desire to curtail adolescents’ access to information about sexuality and gender diversity. This paper details the findings of a content analysis of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Top 10 Most Challenged Books list from 2011 to 2021. The authors analysed purpo…
Mediated risk
Based on qualitative interviews with 53 college students, this article explores how digitally mediated communication is seen as a tool for risk reduction by college students when it comes to their flirtatious interactions. I conclude that college students perceive the affordances of digital communication technologies as helping them manage the anxieties and vulnerabilities inherent in the flirtation process, an idea I refer to as “mediated risk.”…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Human sexuality (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Normative (3 works) · Affordance (2 works)